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efraim
13y ago
What's wrong with buying the Saab Gripen instead? Wouldn't Canada have really similar design requirements as Sweden?
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efraim
13y ago
Sweden was sued by America, really?
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efraim
13y ago
Here's a video teardown of one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlyYjcXgz1s
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efraim
13y ago
It's very simple really. It's a grid of point masses with constraints between them (the lines you see) that says to keep the points at a constant distance from each other. Think of the constraints as springs that follow Hooks law[1], only i
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Origins of the tree swing pictures
(businessballs.com)
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efraim
14y ago
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efraim
14y ago
The reason a CRT seems to flicker with low refresh rates is because the screen goes dark in between beam traces, a LCD does not. So a static image on a LCD with 60 Hz refresh rate is stable whereas a CRT would flicker at that rate.
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efraim
14y ago
The longest journey and its sequel, Dreamfall
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efraim
14y ago
Did you read the article? He's in jail because his alleged involvement in hacking Logica.
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efraim
14y ago
Using the app Scan[1] it immediately showed the IMEI without promt. I'm not going to scan any QR codes of unknown origin any time soon. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.scan.androi...
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efraim
14y ago
Also available as a user script, not saying that this is the same author though. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037
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efraim
14y ago
I think this is a prime example of why apple products are harder to use than they need to be because they refuse to evolve the hardware as the software evolve. They start out with very simple functionality that only need one button. Now, on
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efraim
14y ago
The network card sees all packets that go through the air but discards the ones not meant for your computer. Unless you tell the card not to which is called promiscuous mode, then all the packets are available to the OS.
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efraim
14y ago
Then why are you doing it?
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efraim
14y ago
Whether or not the rape investigation is politically motivated or not is irrelevant, it must still be investigated. And part of that investigation is interviewing Julian Assange to let him give his side. In reality, the investigation will m
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efraim
14y ago
They will be happy to sell you yet another adapter. http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/MC704ZM/A
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efraim
14y ago
Sound waves and radio waves are not the same thing.
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efraim
15y ago
The archives has to be assembled into one file with at least two encoding passes, is that even possible if you don't have the entire show captured?
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15y ago
That was before they raised the accusations to rape again, when he was only accused of sexual molestation. After the renewed rape charges he left before the police had held a new interrogation. Also, the police never said the case was going
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efraim
15y ago
You need to look into what interpol notices mean, they don't correspond to how wanted a person is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_notice Assange should have turned himself over to the police in the beginning instead of leaving Swed
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efraim
15y ago
Where I come from we buy our phones not from a carrier but from a retailer and we are not forced into a payment plan that makes the phones look cheaper than they are. So an iPhone 4S costs from $830 and up, a Galaxy Nexus costs from $770. B
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efraim
15y ago
Why does it matter?
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efraim
15y ago
You can export the existing notes from settings - import/export.
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efraim
15y ago
You can press +1 and then share to google+ in the lower left corner.
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15y ago
It's not different at all since Nokia is using C3's techology. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110419007396/en/C3-T...